Alan Wardroper wrote:
I eventually settled for the following (Thinkpad T23):
hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -u 1 -m16 -X69 /dev/hda hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -u 1 -X34 /dev/hdc
Hey Alan: Are your drive all on the Primary IDE cable? I have two WD drives on a 80 wire cable (Primary master and slave) running them from /etc/init.d/boot.local /sbin/hdparm -X66 -d1 -c3 -m16 /dev/hda /sbin/hdparm -X66 -d1 -c3 -m16 /dev/hdb /dev/hda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 3 setting multcount to 16 setting using_dma to 1 (on) setting xfermode to 66 (UltraDMA mode2) multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) using_dma = 1 (on) /dev/hdb: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 3 setting multcount to 16 setting using_dma to 1 (on) setting xfermode to 66 (UltraDMA mode2) multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) using_dma = 1 (on) However, on SuSE 8.2 I seem to have a multcount time out problem on one drive. The system is a ATA 66 system with a 80 wire cable. Have you are anyone else seen a similar problem? If I could get a long enough 80 wire cable so that I coulds hook up them on different (Primary HD+CD, Secondary HD+CD-RW(scsi-ide)) I would try that. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb@hal-pc.org Info: http://www.knoppix.net